Decentralized control of scaffold-assisted serpentine locomotion that exploits body softness

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 5129-5134

  Kano, Takeshi ^a   Sato, Takahide ^a   Kobayashi, Ryo ^b,c   Ishiguro, Akio ^a,c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; MUSCLE LENGTHS; PROPULSION FORCE; SERPENTINE ROBOTS; SYNTHETIC APPROACH; VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; MACHINE DESIGN; SCAFFOLDS; SENSORY FEEDBACK; SERPENTINE; WALKING AIDS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84864014625     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2011.5980465     Document Type: Conference Paper

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